Narrative:

With first officer flying at 7;000 AGL on the korry arrival we encountered what appeared to be wake turbulence which violently upset control of the aircraft. I immediately advised ATC we were in wake turbulence and were climbing a couple of hundred feet. This was acknowledged by ATC. The first officer got us out of the wake and we continued onto lga without further incident.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Regional Jet landing LGA has wake encounter at 7;000 FT from preceding B757 several miles ahead at lower altitude.

Narrative: With First Officer flying at 7;000 AGL on the Korry arrival we encountered what appeared to be wake turbulence which violently upset control of the aircraft. I immediately advised ATC we were in wake turbulence and were climbing a couple of hundred feet. This was acknowledged by ATC. The First Officer got us out of the wake and we continued onto LGA without further incident.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.